NASA lunar lander
The awards announced to 11 companies May 16 cover initial studies and prototype development of some hardware for portions of lunar landers intended to meet NASA's 2024 lunar landing goal.

NASA announced May 16 it has selected 11 companies to begin studies and initial prototype development of portions of lunar landers the agency hopes can help it meet its 2024 human landing goal.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...